Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-15

Thousands Of men who Were like him in /
moral, intellectual and social charscteriss,ca |
tinguished for loyalty to the Englsh crown, |
allegiance and faith. His nativity was in . /
colony founded, for the English crown; by
Englishmen proud OF the English ia~s
name and church; who had come over the |
water, not as refugees or exiles but ~ pre-
teges and agents OF the rulers and ruling |
powers at home
Memorials OF the loyalty Of tho Virginia |
people to the royal psrs,nsges aud titled |
worthless OF England are still to be read on the
map OF all that part of the state which had
been populated baiore l77S. The colony It.
self was called Virginia, alter that Virgin
Queen who WAS its protector. Elizabeth City,
Elizabeth river, jamestown, James City,
Henrico Prince Edward, Caroline. Chsr-
iotte, Louisa, King Gsorge, King William,
Prince William, Williamsburg, William aud
Mary, King AMI q Qneen, FiuvAnnA Rapidan,
North Anna South Anna, gloucester, Ian.
caster, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Stail,rd
Fairfax, Buckingham, Rockingham, Bruins
wick, Mecklenterg. Lnnenberg, Halifax, Am.
herst, Albemarle, Nelson, PittsylvaniA, Fin.
castle, Botetourt, are names which bespeak
loyalty As undiscrimiuating as devoted.
such were the dominant sentiments and
| such the political and social auspices, In and
under which John Marshall was born and
raised.
Virginia having been colony In which
loyalty to the British crown and affection for
the home country were the warp and wool
OF popular sentiment, to what must we
sscribe the remarkable fact that at the time
| of Marshails majority she had assumed
leading and controlling part in the move
| mept for separation. An exceptional cause
must have existed Tor the extreme revolution
| which had occurred in her political senti.
ments That cause IL easily discovered.
Through the avarice Of crowned heads and
leading officials In Eng gland, interested In the
slave trade, aud in maritime expeditions
fitted out for its prosecution, the colony OF
Virginia, more than any other, had become
so populated with Africans, that general
alarm had come to pervade the community
for the well being of the colony and even
safety of the social fabric. The mother
country refused 10 realizs the decree OF this
appalling danger, and turned deaf ear to
the remonstrances which continually went
| TO her on the subject. 1t WAS danger that
did not admit of vehement public discus
sion and was, by that fact, the more par.
slyzlng to the loyalty OF the colonsts la
| other respects the grievances of Virginia
were identical with those of the more North
| ern colonies. But in respect to this peculiar
danger her grievance was cumula lative, anu
| was for tn II reason even more trying to her
traditional loyalty.
VIRGtNtA's GRIEVANCE.
An expression OF It was maue prominent
feature OF Mr. Jetisrsou's original draft OF
| the Declaration OF Independence in q para
graph containing these sentences
"lie has wsSed cruel war against human
| nature ITSELF violating its most sacred rights
| of life aud liberty, in the persons OF distant
| people who never offended him, captivating
and conveying them into slavery In another
| hemisphere, or to incur miserable dea. b in
their transportation thither.
Determined to keep open q market where
men should be bought and sold, he has pros
tituted his negative for suppressing every
| legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain
| this eNecrable commerce.
Mr.. Bancroft says tina. thess words ex.
| pressed precisely what had happened in
| Virginia. which, as we'll ~ other colon les
had psrseveringly attempted To repress the
slave trade; while the King had Psrsever.
| inCly used his veto to protect it,
| Thus it appears, that an the part OF Nir-
gnia the war of l1I6 was, like the later one
from the same danger, returning in another
form. History but repeated M ISL the role
OF l71&
| MARSHALL As a SOLDIER,
John Marshall was born in l7A5, and was
just attaining his majority when the Decls
ration Of Independence WAS adopted. His
twenty years OF youth had occurred in the
| period when the minds and conversation
of his elders were engrossed with
the momentous topic OF separation,
| and with the causes which were making
1t more aud more inevitable. How could 81
clear and spprehensive mind, thus daily
tutored, have become other than thought
fully solicitous for the reasons OF the solemn
measures then constantly debated. In this
period OF anxious thought, this epoch OF
momsntous problems, hs WAS too young tC
be more than listener. He WAS fifty years
younger than Franklin, twenty-five than
Washington, twenty than Adams, nineteen
than Patrick Henry, twelve than Jetfsrson,
and four than Madison. In his twentieth
| year he had been the first to enlist the Con-
| tinental army, aud he rsmainei in the ald
as a private or captain, until active hostilities
| had ceased.
As member OF company of which his
father was captain, he fought against Lord
| Dunmore in the battle and victory OF Great
| Rribya m pnnmanl rpnairinp
to Washingtons army, he was in the battles
| OF Iron Hin, Brandywine, Germantown and
Monmouth. He was with Washington in
| the bitter winter at Valley Forge, aud was as.
signed by him, though u mere youth, tn i'm
portant special duties. His cheerful and
joyous nature relieved the dependency and
| gloom OF that dark crisis OF the revolution.
| He was with Mad Anthony Wayne at the
storm,ng OF Ssoney Point, and was in the en-
| gagemsut at Powrs II )ok He WAS prompt,
diligent faithful, cheerful, brave and self
sacrificing soldier, throughout . camp life of
| four years.
1t was in conseq uence OF his being on gagged
with these humble and patriotic duties, that
he failed TO be associated in the public coun
ellis, with the statesmen OF the Revolutionary
| period.
But the close OF the war found him attained
| to the age of manhood, qualified and
equipped to take his destined part In the
great work OF devising plan OF national
government, and impartng to 1t the gusran
tees OF enduring stability. 1t was then that
standing shoulder to shoulder and moving
side by side with James Madison, theiI
mother state began to contemplate with pride
| and f-licity, the conspicuous conduct and
beautiful character OF two Of the mos,
talented and conscientious states ,nsn that
ever labored for the welfare OF America.
MARSHALL AT THIRTY-Two.
Marshall was thirty. two years old when the
convention OF 81 met in Anna polls to devise
| a scheme OF national government Men who
had already achieved exceptional promi-
| nence In his state we're delegated to repre-
sent her there, and he waS prevented, by the
misfortune OF being young man, from being
chosen ss a member OF that historical bod y.
ltis we'll known that the Virginia plan oi
| Union WAS the one that was preferred, and
with judicious notifications, adopted at An.
nspois; and 1t Is one OF the enigmas OF
American history, that when this plan oi
| Virginia came To be submitted for ratitica.
tiOn, it encountered . more determined and
formidable opposition from herself than from
any other state. 1t was a. q member OF the
state convention called at Richmond In l7ss
to decide whether or not Virginia should On.
ter the proposed Union under the constitu.
ton promulgated at Annapolis, that Mar.
shall began the brilliant civil career which
made his name one of the most conspicuous
in American annals As coadjutOr with
Edmund Randolph, NJ adson and others, in
advocating in convention the ratification OF
the constitution, hs was brought into ardent
| condensation with q formidable array OF re-